Sources: The Straits Times
Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya orders the temporary closure of almost all of its nearly 2,000 locations in the country after finding a rat and a cockroach in its food. 2025-03-31
JAXA aborts an Epsilon S engine test after a fire occurs at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. 2024-11-26
Japanese electronics company Toshiba is delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after 74 years. 2023-12-20
Shinji Aoba pleads guilty to arson and 36 murders for setting a fire at an animation studio in Kyoto, Japan, in July 2019. 2023-09-5
The United States Armed Forces order all personnel stationed in Japan to wear masks when traveling off-base amid criticism of their handling of the increase in COVID-19 cases in areas where they are based in large numbers, such as Okinawa and Iwakuni. 2022-01-6
Typhoon Jebi kills at least 11 people in Japan, while more than 300 are injured. It is considered the strongest typhoon in the country in 25 years. 2018-09-4
Mount Iō in northern Japan erupts for the first time in 250 years, together with nearby Mount Kirishima 2018-04-20
Thousands of people are evacuated on the Japanese island of Hokkaido as Typhoon Choi-wan approaches from the east. 2015-10-8
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologises over a fundraising scandal. 2011-03-4
The United States dollar reaches a 15-year low against the Japanese yen and depreciates against a range of other currencies due to concerns about further quantitative easing by the United States Federal Reserve. 2010-10-7